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November 13, 2008

Commentary

More of the Same – Only Worse (Part 2)

By Larry Pinkney Editorial Board

[See part 1 in the October 30, 2008 edition of The Black Commentator] Nothing has changed and as long as this unequal and exploitative system remains intact, nothing will. The recent selection by Barack Obama of the war mongering, apartheid Zionist, Wall Street-backed, infamous Mossad-connected Rahm Israel Emanuel to the powerful position of White House…

[See part 1 in the October 30, 2008 edition of The Black Commentator] Nothing has changed and as long as this unequal and exploitative system remains…

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Guest Commentary

President Obama Needs Our Help: A Focus for a March to Save Ourselves from Disaster

By Doug Page Guest Commentator

Introduction President Obama cannot do it all by himself. He needs our organizing ability and help to accomplish what he has promised. In 1993 under far less dangerous circumstances, Republicans and Wall Street used the Senate filibuster to block President Clinton’s proposed Economic Stimulus Package. With the even more bitter partisan divisions and profound ideological…

Introduction President Obama cannot do it all by himself. He needs our organizing ability and help to accomplish what he has promised. In 1993 under far…

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Commentary

Jesse Jackson Jr for Obama’s Senate Seat: Opinion and Polling Results

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Congressman Jackson for Obama’s Seat The SouthtownStar Chicago, November 10, 2008 The Issue: Barack Obama’s soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat is creating a stampede of, “Me, me, me!” We Say: No one is better suited to fill the seat than U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. The SouthtownStar newspaper office sits at 159th Street and Harlem…

Congressman Jackson for Obama’s Seat The SouthtownStar Chicago, November 10, 2008 The Issue: Barack Obama’s soon-to-be open U.S. Senate seat is creating a stampede of, “Me,…

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Guest Commentary

Open Letter to the Lamest Duck on Vets Day

By Cindy Sheehan Guest Commentator

[email protected] November 11, 2008 George Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC Dear George, I am writing this to you on the fifth Veteran’s Day I have mourned the death of my son, Casey Sheehan. Casey was a soldier in the Army. You killed my oldest son with your lies and greed for Empire. Casey…

[email protected] November 11, 2008 George Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC Dear George, I am writing this to you on the fifth Veteran’s Day I…

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Commentary

A Solution To The Problem Of True Terrorists At Gitmo – National Affairs

By Lawrence R. Velvel, JD Columnist

Early on, it was made plain here, on five occasions from May through July of 2004, that the reason the Bush administration wanted to use military tribunals to try prisoners was that evidence against them had been obtained by torture and therefore could not be used against them in federal courts. At the time, this…

Early on, it was made plain here, on five occasions from May through July of 2004, that the reason the Bush administration wanted to use military…

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Guest Commentary

The Obama Presidency: Clues as to How He Might Govern

By Dr. George Wright Guest Commentator

The Presidential victory of Barack Obama is the sixth time in the past 96 years that a Democrat has won an election after at least eight years of Republican control of the White House. Those elections were: Woodrow Wilson in 1912 (sixteen years of Republican control); Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 (twelve years); John F.…

The Presidential victory of Barack Obama is the sixth time in the past 96 years that a Democrat has won an election after at least eight…

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Commentary

The Audacity To Win and “That One” – Between The Lines – Two Commentaries

By Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD Columnist

“That One”: President-Elect Barack Obama And the Fulfillment of Unreasonable Expectations The day we all thought we’d never see became a reality this week as the nation took a major step toward racial reconciliation by entrusting the country’s government to a black man. President-elect Barack Obama, soon to be President Barack Obama – doesn’t that…

"That One": President-Elect Barack Obama And the Fulfillment of Unreasonable Expectations The day we all thought we’d never see became a reality this week as the…

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